A serious warning must be issued to the boards of these two countries, the umpires on the field and, above all, the two captains that their bow threatens the future of Test cricket and promotes ttwweennttyy intent.
The general air of purposelessness on land they competed to create is more attractive.
The introduction of the system of review of the decision in the course of the past two years, except when it comes to the India, can be blamed for the addition of a few minutes every day. But the over-rate of this series is always unacceptable and damaging for the sport.
England were bowling at 13.26 overs Sri Lanka 13.4 hours. Together, the two parties have been bowling their overs at 13.3 time which, if perpetrated in the world in 2011, it will be the slowest annual rate over ever.
And, worse still, CCI allows two captains to flee with this slow, depriving any person who pays to watch, either on a Test basis or on television. Not a single penalty was imposed so far in this series referees match ICC, Javagal Srinath the India in the two first Tests and Alan Hurst the Australia in the third.
At the rate in England and Sri Lanka will, each side could get away with murder on a day - and even to take a break for drinks at the homicide - without being penalized.
On one of the few full days of this paid series to rain, the first day at Lord, Sri Lanka has delivered overs only 88, two short of the so-called "mandatory" - but actually optional — 90 overs, even if the additional half-hour was taken.
Before 1950, Test cricket was conducted at a pace of at least 20 overs per hour. The switch anywhere in the world of amateurism to professionalism threw a major key in the works: in 1980, the rate has sunk under 15 overs an hour for the first time and never reached since.
The slower year to date was 1990 when the over-rate in Test cricket in the world sank 13.62 overs an hour. Since 1994, she remained below 14.5 for proclamations of the ICC.
Make the players remain on the ground until they completed their daily quota has been tried, but without success or the approval of the broadcasters.
Prohibiting any person from the field would be a way to save a few minutes. Prohibition of beverages by cold weather breaks, as has prevailed in this series, would another: but a player like wicketkeeper of before Matt, England, his fluid must guard against cramps.
Another way to speed up over-rates would to the third umpire in time the gap between the end of one above and the beginning of another, compensation for a change bowler. A five-run penalty could then applied to the commissioning side if the deadline is exceeded, on the grounds that the delay is unfair to all the parties concerned.
Accelerate the rates over 15 hour provide more entertainment and also conduct within prints. If the two parties had overthrown 15 hour of the Test, England of the Lord would have been 12 overs more to go forward for the victory.
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